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snakes and ladders

A children's luck-based board game played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.
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snakes and laddersany situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random
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serpents et échelles

cobras e escadas

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